Job Overview
Are you passionate about supporting individuals with mental health needs? We are looking for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse to join our dynamic and diverse community mental health team to deliver high quality care.
The Bentley House Adult Community Mental Health Hub (CMHH) serves the diverse population of Harrow, who have secondary mental health needs. The post holder will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with a full multidisciplinary team including medical staff, nurses and allied health professionals. The CMHH is a trauma‑informed service and operates an intervention‑focused model.
The role is a permanent post with an excellent opportunity to develop skills, knowledge and experience in community mental health. This is a full role from Monday‑Friday; 9am‑5pm.
Bentley House is based in Harrow, a 5‑minute walk from Harrow and Wealdstone station.
Main duties of the job
To be an active member of the Harrow CMHH multidisciplinary team and provide individually tailored interventions for a defined caseload of adults of working age, and their families/carers, who have severe and enduring mental illness. To work in a therapeutic, client‑centred way and use a range of evidence‑based interventions to help promote recovery through individual or joint working with other professionals.
Working for our organisation
The team are supportive of staff development and wellbeing. The post holder will have access to training opportunities and regular supervision.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To be accountable for assessment and care planning of a defined caseload of adults of working age. To assess health and social care needs (including accommodation, finances and support in accessing education, training or employment) and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.
- To prioritise time and workload flexibly to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills, knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
- To undertake risk assessments according to Trust policy.
- To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi‑disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
- To participate in delivering group programmes of specific interventions.
- To engage with service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting, in normal community environments.
- To help clients gain fair and equal access to services through choice and social inclusion, being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability.
- To offer a range of evidence‑based psycho‑social interventions and proactive risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high‑risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery.
- To ensure CNWL Child Protection Guidelines and procedures are fully understood by self and others. To ensure the safety needs of children are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child is felt to be at risk or in need.
- To monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects.
- To provide access to, and ongoing, psycho‑education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families.
- To provide interventions and work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co‑morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
- To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, provide and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users’ ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
- To deliver a flexible and responsive service through working practices that are dictated by service user/carer need and contribute to the provision of service continuity, including outside normal working hours when necessary.
- If admission to hospital becomes necessary, to provide regular formal joint inpatient review to ensure the service user is transferred/discharged to the lowest stigma/least restrictive environment as soon as clinically possible.
- To maintain standards of professional conduct at all times and observe the legal requirements of the MHA (1983), its Code of Practice, The Children Act (1989) and other relevant legislation and guidance.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria: Experience working in a multidisciplinary mental health team with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems.
Desirable criteria: Work with people experiencing mental health crisis, audit and research, teaching, working with people who use substances, previous experience in a Clozapine Clinic.
Qualifications
Essential criteria: Current professional qualification in mental health nursing; registration must be live with the professional body.
Desirable criteria: ENB 812/998/SLICE, mentorship; training in psychosocial interventions or Thorn; family therapy/work training; other relevant training (e.g. substance misuse); training in Care Act 2014; phlebotomy training.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations/IT skills.
- Highly skilled administering antipsychotic depot medication and interactions with mental health conditions.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
- Ability to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families.
- Skills in risk assessment and management.
- Demonstrated understanding of psychosis and its impact on service users and carers.
- Knowledge of current legislation and guidance applicable to this client group.
- Demonstrated understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them.
Desirable criteria:
- Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
- Basic counselling and group work skills.
- Dual diagnosis/substance misuse knowledge.
- Experience working with POCHi machine and ZTAS.
Other
Essential criteria:
- The post-holder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job.
Desirable criteria:
- Holder of full UK driving licence/car driver.
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